Just a few years into her creative career already blessed with highlights, Leanne is an artist who manages to mix vulnerability with an unusual strength.

She has just been awarded the prestigious Carol Lloyd Award, offering her $15'000 to record a new body of work set to be released in 2019. Her live performances are receiving praise from the Courier Mail, themusic.com.au, and audiences throughout Australia. She has received 2 x Qld Music Awards for tracks Gentle Annie and Bearing the Crown in best Blues & Roots, along with several nominations including 'Song of the Year', she has scored official rotation on Double J and inclusion in the Triple Z Hot 100 2 x consecutive years. Leanne Tennant has received various nominations including 'Australian Artist of the Year' - AU Review, the Grant McLennan Fellowship and received a mentorship with Kram from iconic Australian rock band, Spiderbait. Her current album RED WINE, LATE NIGHTS saw Tennant selling out a string of shows last year and has been receiving huge praise from The Sydney Morning Herald, The Courier Mail, and Rollingstone. Tennants alternative Blues style has received support from radio across the country along with being added to rotation on American music video channel ZUUS Media and aired on BBC Radio, RAGE and MTV and a PBS fm Featured album.

"Hearing her, without having seen her live, you can imagine she's standing there like Big Mama Thornton, with a guitar pointed at you and a no-nonsense attitude." - THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD

Leanne has toured the country and has shared the stage with artists including Cold Chisel, The Basics, Emma Louise, Ash Grunwald, Katie Noonan and more, and has spent the last two years fiercely growing as an artist which is evident in her latest release, RED WINE, LATE NIGHTS.

The record is full of ‘real moments’, which have been beautifully captured by Brisbane producer, Jamie Trevaskis, the man behind the sound of Robert Forsters new album (The Go-Betweens), in his all-analog studio in Mt. Nebo. Tennant worked with musicians including Ben Ely (Regurgitator), Ben Carstens (Mexico City), and Jamie Trevaskis himself to bring together a truly unique, dark and untouched record. The songs were recorded live in one-take and are full of real emotion.

The collection of songs has a beautifully dark element and are refreshingly honest thanks to Jamie Trevaskis’ passion in capturing a moment.

Her strong smoldering vocals belie her relatively tender age, and the album title sums up the word her music evokes, as the listener is teleported to a late-night smoky blues bar. At only seven tracks, this promising homegrown talent is obviously going for quality over quantity - THE COURIER MAIL - John O'Brien

"LEANNE TENNANT is one of the most authentic artists that I have worked within a very long time. Bearing The Crown taking out the Queensland Music Award is only the tip of the iceberg for Leanne. She is going to be sending shivers up our backs for many years to come." GRAHAM ASHTON - Footstomp Music - Director - 2015

GREAT OCEAN QUARTERLY“As Leanne begins a softly-hummed and improvised vocal, the audience falls silent, a breeze blows off the waters of the inlet and down the path. And in that moment she has calmed the savagery of the morning and somehow created a true – if temporary – paradise” - Cameron Fergus, Great Ocean Quarterly Magazine - 2015